For every mom and dad tellin their kids to leave alcohol, and drugs alone, there a15 or 20 kids and adults tempting them to try either.
Lindas parents were weekend drunks. Her first husband was a full time alcoholic (a polite title for a drunk). Everybody in her family had been arrested at least once for public intox.
Linda doesn't drink or smoke, and married a cop that can stretch a six-pack of beer into 6 months, and a 5th of bourbon into 1 year plus.
I know preachers kids that are dope heads or drunks, and I know preachers whose parents are dope heads or drunks.
I've always believed that these dopers and drunks have a weakness in their character, and like the altered mental state better than reality.
If they're drunks, they miss half their lives. If narcotics is their choice, they're always on the edge, and fly off in an irrational direction.
It's just the difference in personality, and personal strengths, or lack thereof.
It's just how some people are I guess.